Politician Rape

NEW DELHI: An Indian politician who resigned from the government last month after more than a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment, said on Friday he had a consensual relationship with a New York-based journalist who has accused him of raping her. Pallavi Gogoi, chief business editor at National Public Radio, wrote in a Washington Post column on Thursday ...

BHOPAL: A woman laid a trap and caught a 22-year-old man, who allegedly raped her minor daughter four days back. When the accused Sameer Khan fell for the bait, she called on ‘Dial-100’, after which police nabbed the accused. Shyamla Hills police station in-charge SI BPS Bains said the 14-year-old survivor is a Class 9 student. For past one month ...

New Delhi – A lawmaker from India’s ruling party has been charged with raping a teenage girl, whose father was allegedly beaten to death when the family complained. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has charged Kuldeep Singh Sengar — an elected member of the Uttar Pradesh state legislative assembly — with rape, abduction, criminal conspiracy, criminal intimidation and rape ...

A BJP leader was arrested for allegedly raping a woman on the pretext of offering her a job in Varanasi on Tuesday, 22 May. Kanhaiya Lal Mishra, the former president of the BJP’s Bhadohi district unit, was arrested on Tuesday after a 32-year-old woman alleged he had sexually assaulted her in a lodge in Sigra area. “A case has been ...

A federal inquiry has been ordered into a rape allegation against a lawmaker in India’s Uttar Pradesh state. Kuldeep Singh Sengar, 50, from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is accused of raping a 16-year-old girl last year – an allegation he denies. The victim tried to kill herself last week in front of the chief minister’s home after alleging ...

A woman has filed a complaint with the National Commission for Women (NCW) alleging that she was raped by Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu. The victim who arrived with her lawyer at NCW has alleged that in year 2008 the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Pema Khandu, who was not the chief minister at the time, along with two ...

Katare, the son of former Leader of Opposition Satyadev Katare, had lodged a complaint against the student, alleging that she had demanded Rs 2 crore through an accomplice for not circulating alleged intimate videos of the two. MORE THAN a week after a journalism student was arrested for blackmail and extortion, police on Friday booked Congress MLA Hemant Katare for ...

Midnapore(WB), (PTI) West Bengal BJP leader and former chairman of Panskura Municipality, Anisur Rahman was arrested by police for allegedly raping a woman, police said here today. Rahman was arrested after a woman lodged a complaint at Kotwali police station here last night alleging that he (Rahman) had allegedly raped her for over three months and was threatening her not ...

In a major blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party Party (BJP), its candidate for the Gurdaspur by-poll in Punjab Swaran Salaria has been accused of rape. The complainant has moved the Supreme Court with her plea against Swaran Salaria claiming that she was physically exploited by him on the pretext of marriage. The woman has made her intimate photographs with ...

GURDASPUR/CHANDIGARH: Barely 10 days ahead of the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha bypoll, Shiromani Akali Dal’s (SAD’s) Sucha Singh Langah, a former Punjab minister, was booked on charges of rape and extortion on Friday. Langah, 57, resigned as the president of the Gurdaspur unit of SAD, and as member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee after he was booked. Gurdaspur SSP Harcharan ...